Angelina Deabreu, the woman accused of covering up a shooting involving her teenage son, has agreed to a plea deal that could put her behind bars for 6 years.

The agreement came on the fourth day of trial in Luzerne County Court, just after Judge David W. Lupas dismissed charges of corruption of minors and making false reports to police about the fatal shooting of Tyler Winstead, 14, of Wilkes-Barre.

Instead, Deabreu agreed to plead guilty to a single count of evidence tampering and two counts of hindering apprehension, all second-degree misdemeanors.

Deabreu backed out of a plea deal last year when she learned prosecutors were seeking jail time. She faces up to 3 to 6 years in prison for the charges in the plea deal, according to state sentencing guidelines.

Prosecutors met with Winstead's family as they worked on the deal this afternoon. At one point, First Assistant District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce summoned Winstead's grandparents and other relatives for a discussion in a side room.

Tyler Winstead's grandmother, Carol Golden, walked out of the meeting with her arms folded and said: "I can't deal with it. I can't."

"She's getting away with it," Golden said.

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2:43 p.m.

A Luzerne County judge has thrown out two charges against Angelina Deabreu, who is standing trial for the alleged cover-up of a shooting involving her teenage son.

Judge David Lupas dismissed a charge of corruption of minors and false reports to police. The move puts the case and trial in jeopardy.

Prosecutors immediately asked for a recess to discuss appealing Lupas' ruling. Lead prosecutor Sam Sanguedolce left the courtroom to meet with District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis.

After prosecutors rested their case, defense attorney Tom Marsilo made motions to dismiss all the charges.

"Like everyone else, she thought it was a drive-by shooting," Marsilio said.

Lupas said a lot of the evidence presented at trial "seems to implicate Elijah Yussuf" and not Deabreu. Still, he ruled a jury would decide the remaining charges of tampering with evidence, one count of false reports and two counts of hindering prosecution.

Before his ruling, Lupas questioned the basis for the corruption charge, saying he was skeptical it applies since Deabreu's alleged actions didn't make Yussuf do anything.

He also questioned the false reports charge regarding Deabreu advancing the theory of a drive-by shooter.

"What evidence is there that the defendant is the one who reported the offense?" Lupas said.

Sanguedolce argued Deabreu knew the truth while lying to police.

"There is a shooting outside her house. She has a firearm inside. She knows the victim and witness. She goes in the house and the next day the blood is gone and the firearm disappears. That's circumstantial evidence," Sanguedolce argued.

He noted, "She's texting people to get rid of the gun, right after a shooting occurs. I would say covering up a crime corrupts the morals of minor."

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1:06 p.m.

Elijah Yussuf provided such an "overabundance of information" about the supposed drive-by gunman that killed his friend last spring, investigators immediately raised a "red flag," a detective testified today.

Yussuf, the only witness to the alleged drive-by attack, described the gunman as a thin, black male who escaped in a red, Ford Taurus after he shot and killed Tyler Winstead on Hill Street in Wilkes-Barre.

Investigators said they later determined Yussuf, now 14, accidentally shot the 14-year-old Winstead while playing with a gun in an upstairs bedroom and then dragged his body outside and concocted the drive-by story to avoid punishment.

"I just thought there was too much detail that he provided to us," Luzerne County Detective Dan Beky testified this morning, recalling the early days of the investigation in April 2012. "The way he described the way the incident unfolded to us. I just think a 13-year-old young male who just witnessed his friend get shot wouldn't have that much detail on the shooter."

Beky testified on the fourth day of trial for Yussuf's mother, Angelina Deabreu, who is accused of aiding him in a coverup. Beky detailed the shift in the investigation, from vast dragnet for a drive-by attacker to a painstaking search for evidence inside Deabreu's home.

The lead prosecutor, First Assistant District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce, said he planned to rest his case after a lunch recess. The trial is scheduled to resume at 1:15 p.m. Deabreu's attorney, Tom Marsilio, said they have not determined whether she will testify.

Beky, a 40-year veteran of police work, said he searched the home on his hands and knees to locate the .22-caliber bullet investigators later determined killed Winstead. Investigators missed the bullet, lodged in the baseboard at the base of the steps, during an initial sweep of the home on April 10, five days after the shooting.

"It blended into the woodwork, literally," Beky said.

Beky found it three days later.

"It was like looking for a needle in a haystack," Beky said. "With a little luck, we found it."

State police experts matched blood on the bullet to Winstead. The caliber matched the gun Yussuf said he used to fire the fatal shot. It also matched the gun depicted on photographs and videos found on a cell phone belonging to Yussuf, Beky said.

"During my multiple interviews with Elijah Yussuf and in fact, in direct testimony, he said that gun was the one he used to shoot Tyler Winstead," Beky said.

Yussuf told detectives he shot Winstead in an upstairs bedroom and testified Tuesday that he grabbed Winstead under the armpits after the shooting and dragged him down the steps. Yussuf said he put Winstead down momentarily at the bottom of the stairs to reposition him before dragging him to the street.

The bullet slowed as it passed through Winstead's heart and lung and became caught up in his clothing after it exited his back, Beky said.

"The hoodie acted as a blanket and stopped the bullet," Beky said.

Deabreu, who backed out of a plea deal when she learned prosecutors were seeking jail time, is charged with tampering with evidence, corruption of minors and two counts each of making false reports to police and hindering prosecution.

Yussuf is locked away in a juvenile detention facility on an involuntary manslaughter charge.

Yussuf testified Tuesday that Deabreu removed the gun used in the shooting from the house in a cat carrier. The gun temporarily was stored with his grandfather in Stroudsburg and another family member eventually "got rid" of it, he said.

Beky said "police instinct" led him to distrust Yussuf's detailed account of a drive-by shooting. "It just put a red flag out to me."

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